How LabOra Works
Understand how LabOra works.
How to choose the correct sub-program for the task.
A Quick Tour of the Resource Browser
A quick toue of LabOra's databases via the Resource Browser.
How to use the Resource Browser
The Resource Browser is the window into LabOra's texts and resources.
How to hide and display different frames, how to adjust column widths, how to display what is needed.
How to find:
Daily Mass Texts and Scripture Readings
How to use the new Resource Browser Calendar to quickly find daily Mass texts and Scripture Readings.
All Mass Texts other than Readings
How to find Entrance and Communion antiphons, Opening Prayers, Eucharistic Prayers, Gloria, Creed etc.
Scripture Readings for Mass
How to locate Scripture Readings from The Jerusalem Bible (JB), The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) and the Children's Lectionary (CEV).
General Intercessions for Sundays
How to locate sample Prayers of the Faithful or search for particular themes.
Living Liturgy Notes for Sundays
How to find Living Liturgy Notes for Sundays for those choosing music, preparing introductions or homilies.
Children's Liturgy of the Word for Sundays
How to find Children's Liturgy of the Word. Used when children leave the main Sunday assembly for their own Liturgy of the Word.
Key Liturgy Documents
How to find key Liturgy Documents: General Instruction on the Roman Missal, Directory for Masses with Children, General Norms for the Liturgical Year and Calendar, Directory for Sunday celebrations in the absence of a priest, Introduction to the Lectionary.
Saints and Celebrations
How to find saints and celebrations in the liturgical calendar for Australia and New Zealand. How to find notes on the saints.
Complete Rituals for Rites other than Mass
How to find the complete rituals for Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Anointing and Pastoral Care of the Sick, Funerals, RCIA, Penance, Ordination.
Book of Blessings
How to find blessings: Prayers of praise and thanks to God on a particular occasion or to invoke God's blessing on a person or object.
Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Night Prayer
How to find Morning and Evening Prayer texts for a simplified four-week cycle, arranged according to the day of the week or individual items. How to find Night Prayer.
Hymn Titles and Indexes
How to find hymn titles and indexes from 14 hymnals including lyrics for 100 hymns in the Public Domain.
Hymns are indexed for the Church Year, Rites of the Church, Liturgy of the Hours and over 200 themes.
Clip Art for Feasts and Seasons
How to find 1,000+ clip art files indexed according to Proper of Seasons, Proper of Saints, General thematic seasons, Sacraments, Symbols, Biblical references, People, Events.
Liturgy Preparation Checklists
How to find model checklists for Sunday Mass, Sunday music selections, Baptism, Marriage, Funerals, Funeral Words of Remembrance, Writing intercessions, Children’s Liturgy of the Word for Sundays.
Outlines for 36 different liturgies
How to find liturgy outlines for 36 different liturgies.
These outlines are used for preparing the liturgies.
Sunday celebrations without a Priest
How to find texts for Sunday celebrations without a priest, with or without communion.
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